Margaret Halsey Quotes

My character is not flawless.

People do change.

People don't change just because you know more about them.

People don't alter. They may with enormous difficulty modify themselves, but they never really change.

Most skills can be learned, but it is difficult to train people on their personality.

People, you'll find, aren't usually all good or bad. Sometimes they're just a little bit good and a whole lot bad. And sometimes they're mostly good with a dash of bad. And most of us, well, we fall in the middle somewhere.

What people call success is only preparation for the next failure.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

Give a truly good person power, and they’re still a good person. Give a bad person power, and they’re still a bad person. The question is always about the person in between. The one that isn’t evil, or good, but just ordinary. You don’t always know what an ordinary person is like on the inside.

Traces of nobility, gentleness, and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do those characteristics which are ugly.

People are like books, unknown until they are opened.

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

I'm very interested in people, so if a character happens to be real, there's that much more to look at.

I don't need art to tell me people are assholes. I can just go into the streets.

A forte always makes a foible.

there are some people who never learn; indeed, few people learn by experience, so far as I have ever seen.

You can't really make people be any different than what they are.

Long ago I'd said that I am "fascinated by the phantasmagoria of human personality" - this is perhaps even truer now than years ago.

You had to deal every day with people who were foolish and lazy and untruthful and downright unpleasant, and you could certainly end up thinking that the world would be considerably improved if you gave them a slap.

Ask yourself this question everyday: What is it about me that other people would change if they could?

It's a funny thing, character, the way it brands people as they age, rising from within to leave its scar.

I think people respond to villains because people in general are more villainous than heroic.

Academics are not necessarily nice people.

People who know me, recognize a definite difference in my poise and in my personality, because I've grown.

The police are people as well. All those nasty people aren't really nasty if they'd realise it.